Avon Calling

[Timmer]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 3:17pm

I'm looking for musicals based on the works of William Shakespeare, "the Bard of Stratford-on-Avon."

So far, I have:

Kiss Me, Kate
West Side Story
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Boys From Syracuse

I know there are others, but I can't seem to think of them.

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 3:20pm

All Shook Up

[bobby_luvs_bway]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 3:21pm

Your Own Thing
Romeo and Juliet (that awful French, then English pop musical)

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 3:23pm

There's also the Richard III sequence in "The Goodbye Girl."

[sit&dither]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 3:23pm

Lone Star Love (based on the Merry Wives of Windsor)

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 3:27pm

And, of course, "The Lion King" is based (very) loosely on "Hamlet."

eta: And I think there was another "Twelfth Night" musical, but I can't remember what it was called.
edited again to add: Duh, that was "Your Own Thing." Which was already mentioned.
Updated On: 10/30/07 at 03:27 PM

[kec]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 3:30pm

Merry Wives, a musical based on The Merry Wives of Windsor. It was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and ran in Stratford from November 2006 - February 2007. It starred Simon Callow as Falstaff and Dame Judi Dench as Mistress Quickly.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 4:15pm

ROCKABYE HAMLET
I think,
OH BROTHER Updated On: 10/30/07 at 04:15 PM

[Smaxie]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 9:44pm

Also Music Is and Play On! (both based on Twelfth Night)

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 9:47pm

Reefer Madness, if you really want to go out there.

[NCGuy]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 9:58pm

Return to the Forbidden Planet

[Smaxie]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 9:59pm

Swingin' the Dream, based on Midsummer Night's Dream.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 10/30/07 at 10:02pm

There are parts of The Fantasticks that quote Shakespeare...adn really the whole show is a transposition of Romeo and Juliet.

[Timmer]

Posted: 10/31/07 at 2:13am

Thanks, everybody, and keep them coming!

Posted: 10/31/07 at 6:10am

Reefer Madness was based on a Shakespeare play? Really? Could you elaborate?

[Timmer]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 11:39pm

"Reefer Madness was based on a Shakespeare play? Really? Could you elaborate?"

"I feel...like going out and...killig people." There is a lot of killing in Shakespeare.

[commasplice]

Posted: 11/5/07 at 11:50pm

Illyria, yet another musical based on Twelfth Night

The Frogs is adapted from Aristophanes, but the song "Fear No More" is taken from Cymbeline (and, appropriately, sung by Shakespeare)

[danstudney]

Posted: 11/6/07 at 3:45am

"Reefer Madness was based on a Shakespeare play? Really? Could you elaborate?"

Yes, we set out to do a new version of A Midsummer Nights Dream. The mechanicals became Reefer Denizens, the Nobles were transformed into clean-cut teenagers, Puck became the Lecturer, the forest was made out of marijuana, the time period was moved from Elizabethan England to 1936 and the plot was changed entirely...

j/k, I think what the original poster refers to is the song "Romeo and Juliet" and the running gag that ensues wherein the two main ingenue characters cheerfully liken themselves unto the ill-fated Shakespearean couple without having read the ending of the play.